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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. ETYMOLOGY OF BAIITIZG. It can scarcely be necessary to remark, that 0airri'fu, baptizo, is a derivative of liiirra, bapto, formed through the verbal ffmrds, baptos. The etymological root, or radical syllable of these verbs, Prof. Stuart remarks, is ffair, bap, whose leading and original meaning, he says, seems to have been dipping, plunging, etc. As to the original derivation of Saxru, however, various themes have been proposed. Some suppose it to be a compound of/3dm, bao, to go, or enter into, and iri'irrw, pipto, to fall, or descend, as whatever is immersed goes into the water by descending. Others take it to be an uncompounded verb, formed simply from Others, again, choose to derive it from ffd6os, bathos, depth, or ffa8is, bathus, deep. If it be understood of the immediate theme of the verb, or the mode of formation, this last derivation seems quite probable, as it is supported by the general analogy of languages. Thus the Germans form the verb taufen, to dip, from the noun tiefe, depth. The English preserves the same analogy. Thus to dip any thing, is to deep it. In like manner, the Latin mergo, to immerse, to dip, according to Ainsworth, is formed from mare, the sea, the deep. It should not be supposed, however, that the primitive root is originally and peculiarly Greek. Gesenius, in his Manual Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, under the word SSO. after assigning the signification to immerse, to impress, etc. says, 'Vicinum est Heb. intinxit, immersit; Arab. 532i Ethiop. 5)313. id. item Jatj. Syllaba enim primaria est an. quee etiam in Unguis germanicis profunditatis et immergendi potestatem habet. Cf. Goth, diup, noslr. deep, tief; item doufan, taufen, stippen; Ital. tuffare. Grreci For 5313. Letters of the same organ are frequently commuted;...
